So, there was a point not too long ago when homosexuality was no longer regarded as a mental illness, due to people not wanting to be classified in with "those people." (obviously I don't think there is anything wrong with being homosexual, just like I don't think there is anything wrong with being bipolar)
However, what about the rest of us?
Today there is a problem with classification of mental disturbances. The swoop of a broad mental brush.
After all, it's the mentally ill who shoot up schools!
I propose a change in the paradigm in which we understand the topic of mental illness. Instead of removing categories from the mental illness category and labeling them normal, let's label mental illness as socially acceptable and remove one mental illness and label it as something else entirely!
The new category is, sociopath.
Woah! Woah! Woah! You're just schizoprenic. It's not like you're a sociopath or something!
We can label this in the difference in basic expression and experience of human emotion category, in case there are any other similar situations where people are just BAD PEOPLE!
Or maybe we should just call it, Sick Twisted Human Being category.
I know! It could be in the same category as sex offenders!
A common problem that schizophrenics face is they feel lumped together in a category with sociopaths. When they imagine "mentally ill" the paradigm includes bad people who are sociopaths.
Maybe, we should start a new paradigm for judgment of peoples' inherent goodness instead of just labeling some generic illness in their heads!
And to stay on the safe side, we will continue denying schizophrenics the right to own firearms.
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